One of my favorite iPhone software now is the Hipstamatic camera application. I’d love to get a version of this for Aperture 3.

Olaf Ryes Plass in Oslo seen from Dakota restaurant (btw: try the Dimmu Burger, it's great) thrugh Hipstamatic

This post was written with the iPhone WordPress application as a trial to see how it looks and feels to blog using the phone. Apart from the tiny keyboard that sports a lot of typos and that it’s not possible to add links to post this is a good application and it’s no problem to get a short post published.

What you should be aware of is that you cannot use any theme spesific features in the WordPress app, so for instance this theme called Premium News uses the Excerpt field for frontpage content and a custom image field for thumbnails. You would need a custom app for each theme using custom fields to handle that or do a lot of coding doing it very generic.

The day we have been waiting for is finally here. Someone published malware in an appstore, and to no surprise it was published to the Android Marketplace.  Norwegian newspaper Digi.no has written/translated an article form The Register about an phishing application written to hijack your banking account information.

This was bound to happen, and this is whythere is such a strict regime to submit applications into appstores like the Apple AppStore and the Windows Phone Marketplace.

Today’s smartphones are trusted devices and the general public does not yet think of their mobile phone as a device that needs antivirus, firewall and malware detection software. But as long as there are vendor solutions like the Android Marketplace; where there is no quality control and no reviewing of applications except for the user feedback from those who already have been fooled by such applications i think things will get a lot worse before it gets better. Continue Reading